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What is the Cleveland Corporate Challenge?
The Cleveland Corporate Challenge is a 14 event corporate athletic competition promoting company camaraderie, employee wellness and business networking while helping local charities.
Each company selects a Company Coordinator as the liaison between the company and the Corporate Challenge Office.
Participation Requirements
- Minimum age is 18
- You must be an employee or a spouse/significant other of an employee to compete
- Employee is defined as full time, part time, temp, or intern
- Please Note: If your company and your spouse/significant others company is participating in the Corporate Challenge, you must play ONLY for your company.
Ways to Participate
- Corporate Cup - Full Fledged Competition in all 14 events
- Independent - Participation in select events
Companies can enter multiple teams in the Corporate Cup Division as well as enter additional teams in particular events that have a strong demand.
Company Size
All Corporate Cup companies will compete in divisions based on number of local employees.
Division I 0-99 employees
Division II 100-179 employees
Division III 180-329 employees
Division IV 330-749 employees
Division V 750-1599 employees
Division VI 1600+ employees
*Division employee count subject to change
Entry Fees
Corporate Cup (participation in all 14 events)
- By April 20th - $1,450
- By May 11th - $1,600
- By June 1st - $1,750
Independent or Additional Teams - please see event pages or official entry form for fees.
Checks to be made payable to: Hermes Sports & Events.
By paying the above fee, the company can enter a team in each of the Corporate Challenge Events listed below, accumulating points toward the Corporate Cup. (If there is an event you cannot field a team in, it will not adversely affect you other than the loss of a participation point for the event.)
The Company Coordinator
- Attends Corporate Challenge Coordinators meeting
- Selects team captains
The Team Captains
- Prepares the team to play
- Secures practice times
- Coordinates practices with individual work schedules
- Assures that the team is on time for each game
- Checks in at the check-in table the day of the event
- Handles the company registration and participant waiver forms
Corporate Cup Points
Points will be awarded to those teams entering the Corporate Cup and not for Independent or Additional teams.
Independent and Additional teams are eligible for awards issued for the individual events only.
Scoring System
Bowling, Miniature Golf, Obstacle Course & 10K Relay (Non-Elimination Events)
1st place - 10 points
2nd place - 8 points
3rd place - 6 points
4th place - 4 points
5th place - 3 points
6th place - 2 points
1 for participation
Softball, Skeeball, Dodgeball, Kickball, Cornhole, 3 on 3 Basketball, Sand Volleyball, Flag Football & Tug of War (Double Elimination Events)
1st place - 10 ioints
2nd place - 8 points
3rd place - 6 points
4th place - 4 points
If you win only 2 games and don't place - 3 points
If you win only 1 game - 2 points
If you don't win a game - 1 point
A forfeit is counted as a win
Independent Division
Any company can enter an individual team in the Independent Division. Corporate Cup teams may add additional company teams in the independent division. Your team will be placed in a division of Independent teams only.
Softball, Basketball, Flag Football, Kickball, Dodgeball, Sand Volleyball, Cornhole, the Obstacle Course & 10K Relay.
All teams, no matter the company size, that are in the Independent Division (not Corporate Cup), will compete in the same division.
These sports will be contested on the same dates of competition as listed in the entry material. Teams will be grouped together into one division. If there are less than three (3) teams that are scheduled to play, each tournament will be cancelled and refunds issued.
Skeeball
If there is less than three (3) teams that are scheduled to play, billiards will be cancelled for the independent division and a refund issued.
Mini Golf & Bowling
Independent teams will play in an independent division based on company size.
Tug of War
There is NO independent division for this event.
Event Awards
- The top 3 teams in each event receive an award for their achievements.
- The top 3 companies in each division competing for the Corporate Cup will have a donation made on their behalf to the charity of their choice.
- The winner of each division will have their name engraved on the Corporate Cup.
Charity
The official chairty of the 2012 Cleveland Corporate Challenge is the Jennifer Ferchill Foundation.
Each company entering the Corporate Cup Division will be able to pick the charity of their choice to compete for. The top 3 places in each division will have a donation made in their name to the charity they choose.
The following are just a few charities that have benefited from the Cleveland Corporate Challenge:
| Achievement Centers for Children |
| ALS Association |
| American Cancer Society |
| American Red Cross |
| Applewood Centers |
| Autism Speaks |
| Beck Center |
| Bobby Tripodi Foundation & Cornerstone of Hope |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Ohio |
| Cleveland Baseball Federation |
| Cleveland Food Bank |
| Cleveland Hearing and Speech |
| Cleveland Public Schools |
| Colleen DeCrane Family Foundation |
| Debra of America |
| Juvenile Diabetes Foundation |
| Make A Wish Foundation |
| Ronald McDonald House |
| Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation |
| United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation |
| United Way |
| University Hospitals of Cleveland - Ireland Cancer Center and |
| USO of Northern Ohio |
| Volunteers of America |
| YMCA |
